[alexhawket]

The thing about your 300 songs is that they aren't 300 songs in your collection.. they are 300 songs added to the system.

If anyone else streams or buys those songs, then the content owner will get paid.

Meanwhile the ads or the $6 a month fee goes only towards the songs that YOU actually STREAM from the service at streaming rates. Plus you can buy other songs for 99 cents.

If you never listen to your uploaded songs again, someone else will and they will be the ones paying the content owners.

Content owners get paid whenever anyone strams or buys anything on the system regardless of where it came from.